By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com Friday, July 3rd, is the final deadline day for state petitions to submit signatures to qualify for the Oregon November ballot. Based on a scan of news reports and on people in the field working the petitions, it appears that almost all the petitions making the news in 2026 […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com The City of Portland is considering banning drivers from turning right at a red light for over 200 intersections. The ban is designed to reduce pedestrian accidents. It just may be that Oregon has a pedestrian-auto-accident problem because Portland has a massive population of homeless and drug-intoxicated addicts walking […]

by Randal O’Toole Affordable housing projects funded with Metro’s 2018 housing bond have wasted more than a billion dollars due to bad decisions made by Metro on how to spend that money. Metro’s single-minded focus on increasing the population density of the Portland urban area led it to mostly fund projects that are three to […]

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If Oregon adopted every Prosperity Council recommendation, would a growing employer finally choose the state? By Economist Dr. Eric Fruits, See his Oregon Ledger podcast   When Oregon Governor Tina Kotek rolled out her Prosperity Roadmap, I wrote that it misdiagnosed the problem: The Roadmap misdiagnoses the state’s crisis by treating structural pathologies—rooted in high […]